[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Iraqis stepping up and doing the right thing. This is just what we need.

[RandallFlagg]

WOO-HOO!

[writer33]

Still no weapons of mass destruction. Withdraw now!

:) HA! Just kidding!

It's great news.

[unixfox]

Imagine that.

[ProudVet77]

Iraqi citizens assisted

That is why the terrorists are doomed.

[REDWOOD99]

I'm proud of the Iraqi's efforts to take control of their long-suffering country. God Bless Our Troops!

[NRA2BFree]

Way to go!! Great find!!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Well fortunately, with one troop per square mile on average, we can be absolutely certain there are no WMDs in Iraq.

Disregard http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/04/content_1569696.htm and http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/09/content_1586348.htm and, ahem, http://www.stimson.org/cbw/?sn=cb20020112241 ...

[M. Espinola]

"Iraqis stepping up and doing the right thing. This is just what we need."

This is great news in defeating the enemy of freedom in Iraq.

The jihadist enemy will be defeated!

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Reynolds, left, of Newvienna, Ohio, and U.S. Navy Corpsman Marcus Arnold of Odessa, Texas break the padlocks on storefronts with hammers while searching the Iraqi town of Hit, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 30th, 2005. Now in its third day, Operation Sword, with more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces, aims to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq and is the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter flies over a cement-works factory near the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar June 29th, 2005. Photo by Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters

U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. Richard Canin, right, of Delaware, Ohio and Lance Cpl. Aaron Reynolds of Newvienna, Ohio, enter a shop while Sgt. Andrew Taylor of Dayton, Ohio reads a map in Hit, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 30th, 2005. Now in its third day, Operation Sword, with more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces, aims to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq and is the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

picture released by the US Army shows soldiers exiting a house and moving toward another room during a raid in central Iraq. Iraq's foreign minister called on Islamic nations to support Baghdad in the fight against (jihadist killers), who murdered at least a dozen more people. (AFP/US Army)

An Iraqi soldier shows weapons seized during an overnight raid in the village of Khan Bani Saad, south of the Iraqi city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad. The army said 35 suspects were arrested and huge weapons caches were discovered along with books on Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein(AFP/Ali Yussef)

[Yosemitest]

Here's a book that's worth your time.

It is also offered on CDs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

FROM OUR EDITORS

Three New York Times veteran reporters teamed up for this thoughtful and thorough report on bio-terrorism -- from a salmonella attack by cultists in Oregon during the 1980s to the current state of biological weapons.

ANNOTATION

A frightening and unforgettable narrative of cutting-edge science and spycraft, Germs shows us why advances in biology and the spread of germ weapons expertise to such countries as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea could make germs the weapon of the twenty-first century.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack on American soil. In Germs, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to lay bare Washington's secret strategies for combating this deadly threat.

Featuring an inside look at how germ warfare has been waged throughout history and what form its future might take (and in whose hands), Germs reads like a gripping detective story told by fascinating key figures: American and Soviet medical specialists who once made germ weapons but now fight their spread, FBI agents who track Islamic radicals, the Iraqis who built Saddam Hussein's secret arsenal, spies who travel the world collecting lethal microbes, and scientists who see ominous developments on the horizon. With clear scientific explanations and harrowing insights, Germs is a masterfully written -- and timely -- work of investigative journalism.

SYNOPSIS

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad of The New York Times uncover the truth about biological weapons and show why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are fast becoming our worst national nightmare.

Among the startling revelations in Germs:

How the CIA secretly built and tested a model of a Soviet-designed germ bomb, alarming some officials who felt the work pushed to the limits of what is permitted by the global treaty banning germ arms.

How the Pentagon embarked on a secret effort to make a superbug.

Details about the Soviet Union's massive hidden program to produce biological weapons, including new charges that germs were tested on humans.

How Moscow's scientists made an untraceable germ that instructs the body to destroy itself.

The Pentagon's chaotic efforts to improvise defenses against Iraq's biological weapons during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

How a religious cult in Oregon in the 1980s sickened hundreds of Americans in a bio-terrorism attack that the government played down to avoid panic and copycat strikes.

Plans by the U.S. military in the 1960s to attack Cuba with germ weapons.

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But you'll never hear the liberal media quote these facts.